readx; At four o'clock in the morning on February 27, 1940, two hours before the ultimatum issued by China to Soviet Russia, just after the Chinese Fourth Panzer Army sent a battle report to Nanjing that the predetermined combat objectives had been achieved, the Soviet troops on the front line also began to react, and the Soviet troops on the front line began to take rapid action, but because it was night and the speed of the Chinese Fourth Panzer Army's assault was too fast, it took almost only a few hours to break through dozens of kilometers one after another, and cut off many Soviet communication command nodesIn this case, the Soviet troops on the front line fell into a situation of hesitation and confusion, and many front-line troops were unable to receive orders from their superiors, they did not know what the overall battle situation was, and they did not know whether to counterattack or retreat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This night, almost the entire front line of the Soviet army was plunged into chaos, although China's Fourth Panzer Army had stopped its large-scale offensive at 3:30 a.m. and prepared for defensive operations, this would not have happened, according to normal operational thinking, now for China's Fourth Panzer Army has a great strategic advantage, if the Fourth Panzer Army continues to attack, then it is not impossible to penetrate into the Soviet Army hundreds of kilometers in one day, It is even possible to directly disrupt the strategic deployment of the Soviet army in the Kazakh region, thereby winning the strategic superiority of the entire Kazakh southern front.

However, the action of the Fourth Panzer Army was not a simple military operation, this time the action was more like a political declaration, Chen Jingyun wanted to use the blood of Soviet Russian soldiers to tell Stalin that the price required to challenge Chen Jingyun's tolerance bottom line was unbearable for Soviet Russia, and the Chinese troops were able to defeat the Soviet army up to three divisions in just one night, so the Chinese troops were sure to defeat the Soviet troops in Siberia on all fronts in a short period of time, and push the battle line all the way to the Ural Mountains.

In this era, any verbal warnings are nonsense, and if verbal diplomatic warnings were useful, then world war would not have broken out, and in such an era when countries have fallen into madness one after another, the only things that can make countries recognize reality are bullets and shells.

Historically, it is said that the reason why Ben canceled the policy of going north was because they felt that they did not have the ability after trying it, and the defeat of the army in the Battle of Nomenkan finally made the arrogant army realize that the Soviet Army was not something they could fight against.

A large group of generals in the Nanjing General Staff gathered together, they are here not only because of the actions of the Fourth Panzer Army tonight, but also because they also need to prepare for tomorrow, only two hours away from the ultimatum, when the time comes, if Soviet Russia does not accept China's proposal to stop attacking Finland, then China will not sit idly by, and when the time comes, it is naturally a vain to fight directly to Moscow, but it is necessary to expand the war, and it is impossible to do nothing, a big country should have the appearance of a big country, the younger brother has to be protected, and the face has to be saved, If everyone steps on your little brother and everyone slaps you in the mouth, are you embarrassed to say that you want to dominate the world?

As for whether it will lead to a full-scale war with Soviet Russia, Chen Jingyun does not have too much worry about this, as long as Stalin is not stupid, he should know what the end of a full-scale confrontation with China is, at this stage, the outbreak of a full-scale war between China and the Soviet Union is not beneficial to China, and it is not beneficial to Soviet Russia, so a small-scale, short-term conflict is not a big problem, anyway, the two countries have been hostile for more than 20 years, except for the large-scale war in 1923, there will basically be small-scale armed conflicts every year, every two or three years there will be a war that is not big or small.

Small-scale armed conflicts are nothing for both countries.

At the same time, Stalin in Moscow was with a group of his generals.

"These hateful Chinese actually launched an attack on us six hours in advance!" A bearded beard flicked around.

"How's the situation at the front now?" Stalin's main concern is this, now is not the time to pursue China's sudden attack, it is useless to pursue it, now the key is to figure out what the situation is at the front and what to do next.

"We have urgently inquired about the Siberian Military District, but at present there are no signs of enemy offensive in the defense area of the Siberian Military District, and at present, only the Central Asian Military District has reported that there has been an enemy offensive in the northwestern part of Kazakhstan!"

Stalin frowned: "So, they didn't attack on all fronts?" Only one place? Not even the entire Kazakh region? ”

"It's weird, but it's true!" The admiral next to him said: "According to the information transmitted from the front, it should be an armored unit of China that attacked our army, and it is very likely that it is the Fourth Armored Army stationed in northwest China, otherwise except for this unit, other Chinese troops stationed in the Kazakh region do not have so many armored vehicles!" ”

"What do these Chinese want to do?" When Stalin was puzzled, suddenly a major general walked in.

"The Kazakh Military District called and said that the reserve forces were ready and were expected to launch a counteroffensive before dawn." When he said this, the major general paused and said: "But what is somewhat strange is that the Chinese attack seems to have stopped two hours ago, and at present, except for the place where the attack was first made, there is no attack by the Chinese anywhere else, and the second line of defense temporarily organized by the front line has not been attacked by the enemy!" ”

Instead of breathing a sigh of relief when Stalin heard this, he showed a hint of annoyance: "These Chinese! ”

At a time when the top leaders of China and the Soviet Union were nervously following the development of the situation, the gunfire of Olaf at the forefront continued.

"They have a lot of firepower for the counteroffensive, and it seems that at least no less than two regiments of troops have been dispatched!" Lieutenant Colonel Gan frowned: "And there is quite a lot of anti-tank fire!" It seems that he is determined to recapture Olaf. But they don't want to think about wanting to retake this place just by virtue of their two infantry regiments, foolish dreams! ”

The establishment of the Chinese and Soviet armies is different, the establishment of the Chinese army is a typical master establishment, the number of each division is more and more, the reason for this situation is also a historical limit, because there are so many Chinese troops, the army wants to increase the number of an infantry division is more difficult than expanding the number of a million, since the First World War period, the Chinese army has wanted to increase the number of divisions countless times, but has encountered many resistance, and then the army simply increased the number of divisions. According to the Army's plan for reorganization in 1935, a foot infantry division would have a standing strength of about 15,000 in peacetime, but in wartime, a large number of logistical support personnel would be replenished, and the full strength would be increased to 18,000.

However, the number of motorized infantry divisions is slightly smaller, with a full strength of only about 15,000 people, equipped with a large number of automobiles and motorized, and the automobile march is basically realized. The strength of the infantry division is smaller, only about 13,000 people, mainly equipped with some tracked armored vehicles, semi-tracked armored vehicles, tanks, and the type of equipment is similar to that of the armored division, the difference is that the infantry division has two mechanized infantry regiments, and another tank battalion has more than 50 tanks.

The strength of the armored division is similar to that of the infantry division, with about 12,000 people, but the armored division has two mechanized infantry regiments and one tank regiment, and the number of tanks has reached more than 160.

For example, South China and East China are mainly equipped with T10 light tanks, T8 light tanks, mainly light armored troops, and some special units will be equipped with a medium tank battalion, such as a guard division. Fighting in the north, including the northeast, north, and northwest, the troops in Russia are basically heavy troops, equipped with medium tanks such as T6, T9, and T12, as well as T11 heavy tanks and T13 assault guns. Of course, light tanks of the T8 series are also indispensable.

On the whole, the establishment is relatively large, and the armored division, the mechanized infantry division and the motorized infantry division are quite normal, but the traditional foot infantry division is somewhat too large, but the army does not plan to revise it for a while, because the army wants to reorganize all the infantry divisions, except for a few infantry divisions that are specially used for mountain operations and landing operations, all the others are adapted according to the plan of the existing motorized infantry divisions, and the plan to convert the traditional infantry divisions into motorized infantry divisions is not only being carried out in China. Britain, France, the United States, and Germany, and even Soviet Russia and the Russian Republic are all about the same, but the industrial and economic capabilities of each country are different, and the degree of motorization of infantry is somewhat different, and the best thing to do here is Britain, in 1940, the degree of motorization of the British Army is the highest one, and the whole army has basically been motorized, which China and Germany can't catch up, and the U.S. military is about the same. Of course, there is a very important reason for this, because the scale of the standing armies of these two countries is not too large, and the standing armies of China and Soviet Russia, as well as the Russian Republic and France, are all calculated on the scale of one million, and if we want to fully motorize these millions of standing armies, the resources required are not ordinarily huge, and even Chen Jingyun will not be able to make up this mind when it is not in wartime.

The Soviet Russian side is similar, in the 1939 army infantry division establishment regulations, each infantry division is required to have 650 taels of cars, and most of these cars are trucks with Chinese surnames, but in fact, this requirement is higher than the requirements of China's motorized infantry divisions, and the Soviet Russian army has never been able to achieve this plan, and even half of them cannot be met.

The German side is to trigger the expansion of the army too fast, and the strategic concept after the expansion of the army has some elements to learn from the Chinese army, their industrial resources are basically put on the armored forces, and for the ordinary infantry divisions are not much changed, in fact, the German army in the early stage of World War II offensive operations, the battle is basically fought by armored troops, the traditional infantry divisions can generally only do garrison places, accept prisoners.

The establishment of the Soviet army is also smaller than that of other countries, and the infantry division is only 10,000 people, which is much smaller than the general size of 15,000 in other countries, and the total number of the two infantry regiments is only about 5,000.

If the infantry of about 5,000 people wants to counterattack Olaf, which is defended by a tank battalion and a mechanized infantry battalion, in the opinion of Lieutenant Colonel Gan, this is basically an impossible thing, don't look at the number of this temporary armored regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Gan is less than 2,000, only less than half of the Soviet army on the opposite side, but the firepower they have is absolutely incomparable with the Soviet army on the opposite side, according to the Chinese Army's perennial exercise experience, a fully staffed armored division is fully capable of defeating three to four times more enemy infantry units on its own, It is not uncommon for an armored division to play against an infantry corps during exercises, and armored divisions generally have more wins than defeats.

In terms of combat effectiveness, an armored division of the same strength can completely fight against more than three or four times the infantry troops, of course, while the combat effectiveness is far exceeded, the cost of forming an armored force is far more than those infantry divisions, after all, the equipment used in those infantry divisions is very cheap, rifle machine guns and even towed artillery are not worth much, but the tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled guns and other equipment in the armored forces are all expensive things, and it is not difficult for a small country to get hundreds of thousands of infantry in these years. However, it is impossible for them to raise an armored force with hundreds of tanks, and this kind of thing is even enough to say, "This is enough to choke, if it were not for the fact that they were scared by the Chinese armored forces in the two wars, this army would not have gritted its teeth and put away all its pants before forming a chariot division, compared with the army that was defeated disgracelessly during the second Sino-Chinese war and had its military spending drastically reduced, it was said that the navy was much more alive and moisturized. The military expenditure is too much and the group of bastards who think that the army has failed twice miserably, so that the navy is completely disappointed in the combat effectiveness of these army red deer, anyway, the military expenditure of the navy is not small, and the cost of building ships is enough to make the navy make a good army force, so in recent years, it has increased its investment in the marine corps, and three marine divisions have been established one after another, and among the three marine divisions, only one is a unit specially set up for landing, The other two are full-fledged land field units, and they are equipped with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. It is said that the navy is intended to be used for domestic defense operations and external attacks on enemy countries.

The Navy's Naval Ship Administration Headquarters even set up an eighth department: the Marine War Department, which is responsible for the research and development of various equipment required by the Marine Corps, and has developed the first naval tank in the history of mankind: the Type 98 combat vehicle, which is far superior to those tanks equipped by the Army.

It is said that the tanks equipped with this navy are more advanced and more advanced than those of this army, and this has to be said to be an absolutely funny and strange thing in the military history of mankind.

Unlike the saying that "the army is extremely embarrassed, Soviet Russia is a typical continental country, a country that pays more attention to the development of the army than China, and a considerable part of China's annual military investment is used for naval development, but Soviet Russia's military expenditure is basically used on the army, and if there is no such level of investment, the Soviet army cannot be equipped with tens of thousands of tanks."

It's just a pity that the Soviet troops who came to launch a counteroffensive tonight did not have armored troops, but ordinary infantry units, which made Lieutenant Colonel Gan a little disappointed, as an armored officer, Lieutenant Colonel Gan naturally hoped to establish his own merits by defeating the enemy's armored troops, as for defeating the enemy's infantry troops, this could not give him much sense of achievement.

No matter what Lieutenant Colonel Gan thought in his heart, and no matter how much Lieutenant Colonel Gan despised these Soviet infantry units who came to counterattack, the Soviet counteroffensive had already begun.

Large swaths of Soviet infantry scattered and launched a tidal attack on the temporary armored regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Gan, and although the Soviet soldiers who counterattacked were not very good at direct fire artillery on the front line, there were quite a few long-range artillery support in the rear.

"I think at least one battalion of 122-mm guns fired at us! It is not easy for these Russians to be able to prepare such a large amount of firepower in just a few hours! "Major Han Yihua and Lieutenant Colonel Gan were hiding in an underground artillery hole, and the sound of explosions was constantly sounding outside.

On the front-line position, Sergeant Ouyang Han was lying in the narrow trench, surrounded by his soldiers, and Ouyang Han, who was holding a 1936-style submachine gun in his hand, lowered his voice: "It's all stable, wait until it's closer!" ”

The machine gunner next to him was already breathing heavily, and there were already many Soviet soldiers in his sight, and he believed that as long as he pulled the trigger of the machine gun, he would be able to sweep a large area of Soviet soldiers, and the 1921 light machine gun C model that was standard in the Chinese army in his hand was the latest improvement in 1934.

The A type of the 1921 light machine gun, the B type improved in 1928, and the C type improved in 1934 together became all the light machine guns in the Chinese army, and the total production of this series of light machine guns was hundreds of thousands.

A corporal next to him looked much calmer, and the rifle he was holding was not the same as the other people's 1916 rifles, which were 1937 rifles that had just been in service for two years in China. And this rifle is not a traditional hand-pulled rifle, but a semi-automatic rifle.

China's semi-automatic rifle research and development is still relatively early like other countries, as early as the early thirties, there were preliminary results, but that will be limited by technical limitations, so that the development of semi-automatic rifles in that year has many failures, high costs, simply can not be practical, this situation not only appeared in China, but also appeared in other countries, and it was not until the mid-to-late thirties that semi-automatic rifles can be regarded as real large-scale practical use.

The United States was the first to be equipped with the M1 semi-automatic rifle on a large scale, followed by the 1937 rifle in China, and then the SVT-38 rifle in 1938 in Soviet Russia. In addition to China, the United States and the Soviet Union, although other countries also have the development of semi-automatic rifles, they are not equipped on a large scale.

In terms of surname, the 1937 semi-automatic rifle developed by China is actually not better than the M1 rifle in the United States, but like the 1936 submachine gun in China, a large number of stamping parts are used in production, simplifying the process, and it is worth China's 1937 rifle to have a great advantage in cost. The weapons produced by China over the years are basically cheap and easy to produce in large quantities, and the next thing to consider is the issue of surname energy.

Therefore, some of the weapons developed and put into service by China over the years basically look relatively simple, but they are very easy to produce in large quantities, and the weapons with low cost, even if they are very advanced in the eyes of various countries and have high costs such as T9 and T12 and T11 tanks, they actually follow this design concept, for example, the cost of T12 tanks is not as high as the outside world imagines, and it has great parts and components with T11 tanks and T9 tanks.

The latest F5 fighter in service in the Chinese Air Force was designed as a front-line fighter from the beginning, although it uses a liquid-cooled engine, and its surname is also a big increase compared to F4, but the cost has not climbed too much.

The infantry squad of the Chinese armored forces has a submachine gun, two semi-automatic rifles, a light machine gun, and the rest is a 1916-style manual rifle, in addition to a very special infantry support weapon in service in recent years, that is, a gun grenade.

The original purpose of China's research and development of gun grenades was to fight against the grenadiers in the army, which brought a deep impression to the Chinese army in the 1930 war, these grenadiers had a very high hit rate in the hands of experienced soldiers, and the results were very large, after the war, China also wanted to develop a similar individual portable artillery support weapon, but found that the grenadier was very difficult to use, and it took a long time to train to be able to obtain a considerable hit rate. According to the support of the army's large-scale war theory, once a war breaks out, China needs to arm the army with tens of millions of troops in a short time, and there is time for soldiers to slowly train grenadiers for several years

Therefore, according to Chen Jingyun's proposal, a gun-mounted grenade launcher was developed, which could be mounted on a 1916-style rifle, and then fire a specially equipped grenade to support infantry operations. Due to the emergence of gun grenades, the army began to equip hand-held grenades on a large scale, this newly developed 1935 grenade can not only be used for manual throwing, but also can be fired through a grenade launcher, while the Chinese Army's original large-scale equipment of wooden handle grenades is unable to do this, so the Chinese Army also officially announced the cessation of manufacturing wooden handle grenades, but in the past 20 years, like other weapons and ammunition equipped by the Chinese Army, the number of reserves is not ordinary. Without the outbreak of war, it is really not easy to run out.

In terms of the allocation of infantry light weapons, there is not much gap between the Chinese Army and the Soviet Russian Army, as well as the British, French, German, and American armies. The real gap is in heavy weapons, and the gap in artillery is not big in terms of surname, but the big gap is the quantity, you have 10,000 guns, others have 20,000, this is the gap.

In addition, it is also reflected in the armored forces, especially tanks, and the gap in tanks is not in quantity, but in quality, the tanks equipped by various countries can be good and bad, and the quality of China's tanks is naturally the best, and the quality of other countries is slightly inferior, and the quality of tanks not only requires industrial strength, but also is caused by the difference in the overall tactical concept of the army.

In addition to the factor of national strength, what is more important is the difference in some strategic concepts.

And this kind of combat effectiveness gap is staged in Olaf, countless Soviet troops are attacking the Chinese troops in Olaf, and countless guns and artillery spray countless bullets and shells, just when the Soviet troops are engaged in an offensive and defensive battle with Han Yihua's infantry battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Gan once again led his tank battalion to make a detour, and then directly inserted into the hinterland of the Soviet attack formation from the left, almost instantly, causing the collapse of the entire Soviet army.

By six o'clock in the morning, Lieutenant Colonel's temporary armored regiment not only held Olaf, but also routed the attack of two Soviet regiments, causing at least 2,000 Soviet casualties, and if you add the hundreds of casualties they brought to the Soviet army when they attacked Olaf before, then overnight, in the small town of Olaf, the Soviet army suffered 2,500 casualties, accounting for more than one-third of the casualties tonight.

At dawn, when reports of casualties and results on the front line were delivered to Stalin, Stalin tore the report to shreds: "Seven thousand casualties were lost in one night, and the enemy suffered less than three thousand casualties!" How is this fighting at the front! ”

In fact, the number of casualties of the 3,000 Chinese troops was only estimated by the Soviet army itself, and it was still on the large side, in fact, in one night's military operation, because the Fourth Panzer Army adopted the mode of surprise attack, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides was very different, so its own casualties were extremely small, not even 1,000 people, and most of them were wounded, and less than 100 people were actually killed.

Obviously, Stalin also guessed that this data would be watery, and the difference in the battle losses between the two sides was so large that Stalin was so worried that he didn't even dare to imagine how long the defense line in Siberia and Central Asia, which he had painstakingly built, would be able to hold out if China launched an offensive on all fronts. Is it three days or a week?

Perhaps, it was time to stop the operation on the Finnish side, and Stalin, who had this idea in his heart, could not stop resenting China and Chen Jingyun for this.

"As long as I am given time, two years, no, as long as one year, I will be able to carry out a comprehensive reform of the army, and then I will see what you Chen Jingyun can do to prevent me from uniting Russia!"

Stalin's determination and resentment Chen Jingyun naturally did not know or care, and at six o'clock in the morning Chen Jingyun and a large group of generals in Nanjing heard the news from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Soviet army had officially ceased military operations in Finland.

Hearing this, Chen Jingyun and a large group of generals were all smiling.